CRATAR NEIGHBORHOOD, ADEN, YEMEN. NOVEMBER 30, 2018. A boy walks thru a block destroyed by coalitions airstrikes in mid-2015. The area of Aden known as 'Cratar' was named as it lies within an extinct volcanic crater and is ringed by high escarpments used mostly by the military these days

ADEN, YEMEN. NOVEMBER 24 2018 U.A.E backed Yemeni troops at a checkpoint in Aden Governorate. The United Arab Emirates provide funding and training for local Yemeni military conscripts, many of whom are now on the frontlines in and around the port city of Al Hudaydah.

ADEN, YEMEN. Nov 21, 2018 The remains of a burnt-out Houthi tank near an outlook just off the Aden to Crater road in Aden.

IDP SETTLEMENT, LAHAJ, LAHIJ DISTRICT. NOVEMBER 20 2018. A young girl with her much older husband in an IDP Settlement in Lahij district in south Yemen. Many young women are 'married off' by fathers in return for a handsome dowry. In more remote areas, girls as young 13 are often considered old enough to be wedded.

ADEN BEACH CLUB, ADEN. YEMEN. Nov 26, 2018 A swimming pool in the ruins of a former beach resort on the coast near Aden. South Yemen. The resort was targeted by coalition airstrikes after Houthi fighters took up positions in the resort during the battle for Aden during the summer of 2015.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL, ADEN. YEMEN. Nov 21, 2018 Families mill around in the lobby of Al Sadaqah hospital in the Dar Saad area of Aden. Men are not allowed in the wards en masse and after 8pm they are barred entirely from entering the hospital for security reasons.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL MATERNITY WARD, ADEN. NOVEMEBER 27, 2018. Safiah Hassan Salem, a 30 year old Somali refugee who fled from the embattled Al Hudaydah region in September 2018, lies in a post-natal ward with her newly-born twin boys. Safiah, photographed here recovering a day after an emergency caesarian operation, was suffering from exhaustion and deep pulmonary thrombosis when admitted to the hospital two days earlier. Her two babies, pictured sleeping here in cardboard boxes, were born a month prematurely. Safia who has already lost three children in infancy, has two other surviving children, who live at an IDP settlement with her husband a few miles from the hospital. After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the effects of dire war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL. ADEN, YEMEN, NOVEMBER 29, 2018. Relatives of patients waiting and sleeping on the floor of hospital's lobby.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL, ADEN, YEMEN. Nov 24, 2018. Mothers of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition sleep and stay with children during treatment. Some spend weeks or even months at the hospital though much depends on their financial resources and proximity to other family members- many of whom live in IDP camps having fled fighting in the north of the country.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL, ADEN, YEMEN. NOVEMBER 27, 2018. An expectant mother writhes with labor pains whilst being comforted by relatives shortly before giving birth in Al Sadaqah maternity ward in downtown Aden. According to Dr Aida (Head of Malnutrition) the hospital was built by the Russian government in the 1970's. As the war took hold in mid-2015, the facility was ransacked and closed for a year during the battle for Aden. Despite the closure, a small team of maternity doctors and nurses continued working in the basement during the height of the fighting.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL. ADEN, YEMEN. NOVEMBER 29, 2018. Doctors and nurses work on patient medical records inside the pre-labor maternity ward in Al Sadaqah hospital. According to Dr Aida (Head of Malnutrition) the hospital was built by the Russian government in the 1970's. As the war took hold in mid-2015, the facility was ransacked and closed for a year during the battle for Aden. Despite the closure, a small team of maternity doctors and nurses continued working in the basement during the height of the fighting. Since the re-opening of the hospital, doctors now choose to maintain hand-written records after all the hospital computers were stolen when the building was overran and due to to the ongoing power outages. After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the effects of dire war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL, ADEN, YEMEN, NOVEMBER 30 2018. Fawaz Abdullah, 18 months old and suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition, is carried by his mother, Ruqaya Saleh, aged 25. After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the country is staggering with babies and young children at the most risk. The effects of dire war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals. An alarming report on the state of young Yemeni children released by UNICEF in 2018 reported that "Half of Yemeni children under the age of 5 are chronically malnourished and will never develop to their full intellectual potential. Some 400,000 of these young children are suffering from a life-threatening form of severe malnutrition."

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL. ADEN, YEMEN. NOVEMBER 27, 2018. A sleeping mother and her newborn, who suckles the last few drops from a bottle, lie together in the maternity ward of Al Sadaqah hospital in Aden. Since the war began in March of 2015 land border closures and the restrictive port blockades, almost all specialized food items, such as high-protein baby formula, have been in short supply and have become exponentially more expensive. Many of those who have fled the Al Hudaydah region arrived in the Aden area with next to nothing. With high unemployment and the decimated economy, many families cannot afford to buy baby formula on a regular basis. After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the country is staggering with babies and young children at most risk. The effects of war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals.

AL DAKA CAMP, ADEN, NOVEMBER, 26 2018. Hamamah Mahmood Ali, who is 15 years old, was married at the age of 14 to a 22 year old man. She and her family are currently internally displaced having fled the fighting in Al Hudaydah some 6 months earlier. Pictured here the day after giving birth to a stillborn baby on the floor of the shack where she and her family now live.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL, ADEN, YEMEN, NOVEMBER 30 2018. Jaqoob Walid, 8 years old and suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) stands for a portrait in the Al Sadaqah Hospital. According to his mother, Yaqoob is the second of eight children in a poor household with a father who has mental health problems and can't work steadily. Moreover, the father, like many Yemenis, chews qat - a narcotic leaf that is very widely used in Yemen and offers an easy high. This consumes about $1 a day, reducing the budget available for food. The family sold some land to pay for Yaqoob's care, so its situation is now even more precarious. After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the country is staggering with babies and young children at the most risk. The effects of dire war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL. ADEN, YEMEN. DECEMBER 5, 2018. Abrar, aged 12, sits on a bed in the severe acute malnutrition ward of Al Sadaqah Hospital. Abrar was only 12.8kg when she was admitted to Al Sadaqah hospital on December 4 2018. She had been suffering from watery acute diarrhea for the past 10 weeks up till the time of her admittance. Before Abrar arrived at the Aden hospital, her family had spent weeks trying to negotiate safe passage across the front lines near their home of Al Hudaydah; a place where they could not receive medical treatment due to hostilities.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL. ADEN, YEMEN. NOVEMBER 14, 2018. A young Yemeni boy suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition looks at his mother off camera and writhes in pain in Al Sadaqah Hospital. In the background, a Yemeni father tends to his sick infant.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL. ADEN, YEMEN. DECEMBER 5, 2018.
Abrar, aged 12, watched by her mother in the Severe Acute Malnutrition ward of Al Sadawah Hospital. Abrar was only 12.8kg when she was admitted to Al Sadaqah hospital on December 4 2018. She had been driven overnight from the embattled region of Al Hudaydah and was diagnosed with Severe Acute Malnutrition.
She had been suffering from watery acute diarrhea for the past 10 weeks at the time of her admittance. Her family had spent weeks trying to negotiate safe passage across the front lines near their home of Al Hudaydah; a place where they could not receive treatment due to hostilities.
After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the country is staggering with babies and young children at most risk. The effects of this dire war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL. ADEN, YEMEN. DECEMBER 5, 2018.
Abrar, aged 12, lies on a bed in the Severe Acute Malnutrition ward of Al Sadaqah Hospital. Abrar was only 12.8kg when she was admitted to Al Sadaqah hospital on December 4 2018. She had been suffering from watery acute diarrhea for the past 10 weeks up till the time of her admittance.
Before Abrar arrived at the Aden hospital, her family had spent weeks trying to negotiate safe passage across the front lines near their home of Al Hudaydah; a place where they could not receive medical treatment due to hostilities.
After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the country is staggering with babies and young children at the most risk. The effects of dire war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals.

AL SADAQAH HOSPITAL, ADEN, YEMEN. DECEMBER 5, 2018. Fawaz Abdullah, 18 months old and suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition photographed while sleeping under a fly mesh in Al Sadaqah hospital in Aden. After nearly 4 years of brutal war in Yemen, the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe in the country is staggering with babies and young children at the most risk. The effects of this dire war-induced poverty coupled with the ballooning critical health crisis has now placed an unfathomable pressure on the few still-functioning children's hospitals.

DAR SAAD IDP CAMP, ADEN, YEMEN. Nov 30, 2018 Ahmed Abdullah fled the embattled port of Al Hudaydah with his family in June 2018 after two of his daughters were killed in a coalition airstrike. The family now lives in a makeshift IDP camp near a busy khat market in the Dar Saad area of Aden. Although now in the relative safety of Aden, the family joins some 200,000 others who have fled Al Hudaydah for Aden in the past year. According to UNHCR, some 3.9 million people have been displaced in Yemen since the war began in March 2015.

DAR SAAD, ADEN, YEMEN. Nov 30, 2018 Women sit smoking a hookah while waiting for an engagement party to begin in a house on the outskirts of Aden in South Yemen.

ADEN QUAY, ADEN, YEMEN. NOV 17, 2018 Men at prayer in a sea side eating place near the port in downtown Aden.